"You know, there is something extraordinary, Robert," he said. "You can tell a soldier to burn a village and he will do it and commit a war crime. Or you can tell him to rescue people and he will do that and he is a humanitarian hero. Isn't that extraordinary?"
Adrien Jaulmes speaking with Robert Fisk.
4 comments:
Hi Di,
That is so true.
Keep smiling
David
It is ... so disturbingly true that I had to post it. Maybe there's change a-coming in the 21st century but watching a movie based on the recent war in Croatia did break my heart some.
Chilling in its simplicity.
Just how much free will does your average soldier have these days?
I would imagine and hope they have more free will than in the past ...
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